Magnus Isaksson
Senior Director, Data Science And AI
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMagnus Isaksson is a hands-on leader in genomics and bioinformatics with over a decade of experience building production-ready NGS pipelines, cloud-based HPC platforms, and regulated SDLC for clinical-grade analysis. Currently Senior Director, Data Science and AI at Helix, he leads AI-driven population health initiatives that leverage one of the world’s largest linked phenotype–omic repositories to drive better patient outcomes. His career spans founding a genomics startup, leading bioinformatics R&D at Agilent, and architecting Helix’s scalable, containerized research platform on AWS capable of processing thousands of human exomes. Known for blending deep molecular biology expertise (PhD in Molecular Medicine/Bioinformatics) with pragmatic software and DevOps practices, he frequently bridges research, product, and regulatory requirements. He has a track record of hiring and growing cross-disciplinary teams and translating novel molecular methods (e.g., Selector technology, molecular barcodes) into commercial products. Colleagues describe him as an inventorially minded leader who moves complex genomic methods from prototype to robust, auditable systems.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Molecular Medicine Bioinformatics, Ph.D. Molecular Medicine Bioinformatics at Uppsala University
English, Swedish
Github Skills (2)
surveillance6
helix5
Github contributions (5)
mais4719/kmer2vec
Nov 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:30 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
myhelix/helix-covid19db
Feb 2021 - Jun 2021
Helix® COVID-19 Surveillance
Contributions:3 reviews, 19 commits, 21 pushes in 4 months
sars-cov-2surveillancehelix
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